Ep. 134 The Stacks Election Special with Akilah Hughes
Today we’re doing something different. With the election just two weeks away, we’re diving head first into the election and politics. Akilah Hughes, host of Crooked Media’s daily news podcast, What A Day, joins us to talk about covering news in fall 2020 and answer your questions about the election. In addition to hosting What a Day Akilah is the author of Obviously: Stories from My Timeline, a comedian, and a TV writer.
The Stacks Book Club selection for October is The Autobiography of Malcom Xas told to Alex Haley, we will discuss the book with Marc Lamont Hill on October 28th.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon
Obviously by Akilah Hughes
What a Day (Crooked Media)
Lovett or Leave It (Crooked Media)
Pod Save America (Crooked Media)
Pod Save America (HBO)
Bob's Burger (FOX)
"Keep Calm and Harrison" (What a Day, Crooked Media)
"Take it Espy" (What a Day, Crooked Media)
"Racism Cont'd" (What a Day, Crooked Media)
"Still No Justice for Breonna Taylor" (What a Day, Crooked Media)
"Video shows comedian confront Harvey Weinstein during performance" (The Washington Post)
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
"The Short Stacks 28: Jacqueline Woodson//Red at the Bone" (The Stacks)
Watchmen (HBO)
"It’s no wonder hundreds of millions have been spent on Prop. 22. A lot is at stake" (George Skelton, The Los Angeles Times)
"Questions to Mark Zuckerberg show many senators don't get Facebook" (Shara Tibken, cnet.com)
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